Singer-songwriter ALEPH during an interview with The Korea Times in Mapo District, western Seoul, Friday / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
Ask singer-songwriter ALEPH where he writes his songs. He will not point you toward a studio. He will point you toward his bed.
"This is my office and my home," the singer-songwriter said, sitting in the apartment that doubles as both, during an exclusive interview with The Korea Times in Seoul's Mapo District, Friday.
A producer's studio sits nearby for arrangement and mixing, but the songs themselves are born here, in the same room where he sleeps and eats and, on good days, picks up a guitar because something in him says it is time.
"I pick up the guitar, fool around with it, and if a melody comes out, I sketch it. On a good day, I finish the whole thing right here, then bring it to the studio."
